THE BEE RECOMMENDS

October 10, 2005

God is good. We had such a fun day with our friends. I had to get on and post the cute photos I took... I apologize in advance that they are dark and grainy. I had to use my camcorder to take pictures because my digital had no juice.

Here are some things we did for our Columbus Day Unit Study:

We read "History Maker Bios: Christopher Columbus" by Susan Bivin Aller together and discussed as we read it

We found Italy, Portugal, The Atlantic Ocean, India, China, Japan, San Salvador, Hispaniola, Cuba, Haiti, South America, Jamaica, and Spain on a map

See a map of the "known world" in the 1400's before the discovery of the "New World"

Read the poem "In 1492, Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue"

Pretend you are a sailor on one of Columbus' ships and write a ship's log

Discuss how the crew might have felt when they didn't find gold, and when they met the "Indians"... and how they might have felt being left behind

Discuss being shipwrecked for a year on an island (as Columbus was on another voyage), and how it might have been meeting cannibals

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Just wanted to say that I followed suit with your previous email about ideas for Columbus day and we had an awesome "off-track" :-) day!! The kids loved everything I had throwed together for them to do. Thanks for taking the time to post it all!Rachel

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